# One-click installer for Windows and win32-open3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-windows-and-win32-open3/95577>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 6, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-windows-and-win32-open3/95577 "2006-06-06T17:48:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-windows-and-win32-open3/95577/1 "2006-06-06T17:48:46Z")

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Dear all,

I am trying out Ruby from the one-click installer in Windows.  
I am not really familiar with Windows compiling :  
does the one-click installer comprise Daniel B.'s  
tools for windows, in particular win32-open3 ?  
I can only find a version that needs to be compiled on  
Sourceforge.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Axel

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-windows-and-win32-open3/95577/2 "2006-06-06T19:15:25Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Best regards,
> 
> Axel

Hi Axel,

The win32-open3 package is not part of the one-click installer. If you  
don’t have a compiler, you can instead download the shared object  
directly from the ‘files’ tab ([http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=85](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85))  
and look for a file called open3-0.2.2  
([http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/10842/open3-0.2.2-vc6.so](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/10842/open3-0.2.2-vc6.so)).

Rename that file to “open3.so”. Then copy it to  
c:\ruby\lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt\win32. You’ll have to  
create the ‘win32’ directory there if it doesn’t already exist.

Note that we’ll be putting out a new release of win32-open3 soon (in the  
next few weeks) that properly sets $? (Process::Status).

And, for anyone who’s wondering, we won’t be able to convert this  
particular package to pure Ruby because it has to hook into C functions  
from ruby\_io.h that aren’t exported by the DLL. Sorry folks.

Regards,

Dan